Events
- Date Monday, 05 September 2016
- Time 18:30 for 19:00
- Venue Braamfontein Campus Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Senate House. Wits University, Johannesburg
- Main Speakers Malusi Gigaba, Minister of Home Affairs
- For enquiries or to register please contact rozale@tips.org.za
Alice Amsden Memoria Lecture Topic: The State-Business Relationship and Industrial Policy Speaker: Malusi Gigaba, Minister of Home Affairs About the Speaker Malusi Gigaba is the Minister of Home Affairs. He was South Africa's Public Enterprises Minister and prior to this appointment, he was the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs for South Africa. Gigaba is…
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- Date Saturday, 06 August 2016
- Time 14:00
- Venue Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), 227 Lange Street, Pretoria
- Main Speakers José Gabriel Palma and Kate Philip (discussant)
- For enquiries or to register please contact rozale@tips.org.za
- Organisation Economies of Regions Learning Network in association with the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE)
TOPIC South Africa is among a small group of uniquely unequal countries; if inequality acts as a constraint on growth – and greater equity unlocks it – how does it do so? What are the transmission mechanisms that lead to this effect? Can it be assumed that all forms of…
- Date Thursday, 01 September 2016
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Professor Karl Ove Moene
The economies in Scandinavia have for long periods had high work effort, small wage differentials, high productivity, and a generous welfare state. The seminar will explore the economic and political equilibrium in these economies and how they combine models of collective wage bargaining, creative job estruction, and welfare spending. The presenter…
- Date Thursday, 28 July 2016
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Dr Neva Mkagetla
TIPIC: STEEL - WHERE TO FROM HERE? The steel industry is in crisis, with a significant decline in local production, falling prices and global overcapacity. The crisis has seen the dissolution of Evraz Highveld and threats to other major producers. In response, the government is seeking ways to ensure that…
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- Steel - where to from here? (1627 Downloads)
The TIPS Annual Forum 2016 was held in partnership with the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development and the SARChI Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg, and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and in association with the Departments of Trade and…
- Date Friday, 27 May 2016
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule; Sithembiso Mtanga
TOPIC: PRESENTATION OF THE LATEST QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING BULLETIN Understanding the trends and views of manufacturing firms contributes to improved implementation of sector strategies and industrial policy. The Quarterly Manufacturing Bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle that provides current views of manufacturing firms and an analysis of trends in…
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- Date Wednesday, 09 March 2016
- Time 10:30 to 12:00
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
BACKGROUND Coming out of the Malaysian experience on a ‘Big Fast Results’ methodology, South Africa ran an Operation Phakisa on the ocean economy. Operation Phakisa is a results-driven approach, involving setting clear plans and targets, on-going monitoring of progress and making these results public. The Phakisa looked at the untapped…
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- development_dialogue_-_oceans_economy_and_abalone_industry.pdf (1541 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 22 February 2016
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
TOPIC: PRESENTATION OF THE LATEST QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING BULLETIN The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It serves to provide an analysis of firm level trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the fourth quarter, 2015, manufacturing…
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- Date Thursday, 21 January 2016
- Venue Tram Village, 317 Tram Street in Pretoria
- Main Speakers Thomas Farole ; Faizel Ismail ; Ben Turok
PRESENTATION FOLLOWED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION Session 1: 9:30 – 11:15 Thomas Farole – World Bank Faizel Ismail – UCT and the dti Ben Turok – Institute for African Alternatives Tea Session 2: 11:30 – 12:30: Panel Discussion Background: The concept of Global Value Chains (GVC) takes forward the idea that the activities that…
- Date Wednesday, 18 November 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule ; Neva Makgetla
TOPIC: PRESENTATION OF THE LATEST QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING BULLETIN The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It provides an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. This development dialogue will present the third quarter manufacturing bulletin with the aim of informing policy and facilitating…
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- the_end_of_the_commodity_boom_and_the_sa_economy_november_2015.pdf (1744 Downloads)
- manufacturing_circle_survey_third_quarter_2015.pdf (1388 Downloads)
- Date Wednesday, 14 October 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers UMA ADUSUMILLA
SPEAKER: UMA ADUSUMILLA Uma Adusumilli has been heading the Regional Planning department in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), an institution that has wide scope for Regional Planning & Development, Financing, Institution Building and Co-ordination for the last eleven years. Prior to that, she worked for 15 years as…
- Date Wednesday, 02 September 2015
Public seminars held during APORDE 2015 1. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY CHALLENGES OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY Speakers: Christopher Cramer and Mushtaq Khan Date: Wednesday 2 September 2015 Time: From 18:30 Venue: CCRED Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, 5 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank Organised by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) For…
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- development_dialogue_seminar_series_with_aporde_2015_september.pdf (1377 Downloads)
- Date Friday, 21 August 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Insights into the manufacturing sector: Outcomes of the latest quarterly Manufacturing Bulletin The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the manufacturing circle. It serves to provide an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the second quarter,…
- Date Tuesday, 11 August 2015
- Venue VENUE: The Sheraton Hotel, 643 Cnr Stanza Bopape/Wessels Streets, Arcadia, Pretoria
- Organisation Organised by UCT Graduate School of Development Policy & Practice, DPRU and co-hosted with UNU-WIDER and TIPS
You are invited to the Pretoria launch seminar of The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa Edited by: Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube 52 entries by leading economists from within and working on South Africa bringing together perspectives on a range…
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- oup_book_launch_invite_pretoria_11_august_2015.pdf (4483 Downloads)
- Date Thursday, 09 July 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers GAYLOR MONTMASSON-CLAIR, Assistant Programme Manager, Sustainable Growth, TIPS. DR NEVA MAKGETLA, Programme Manager, Trade and Industrial Policy, TIPS
Repositioning electricity planning at the core: An evaluation of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan Gaylor Montmasson-Clair Background: Energy and electricity issues in particular have recently been high on the South African agenda. Beyond immediate near-term considerations, reviewing the current electricity planning process is both a timely and necessary exercise. This review, based…
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- Date Monday, 09 November 2015
Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling with GAMS 9-13 November 2015 Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a workshop Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium Modelling with GAMS, to be held in Pretoria from 9-13 November 2015. For details of the workshop, see the…
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- application_cge_gams_workshop_nov_913_2015.docx (2836 Downloads)
- Date Monday, 02 November 2015
Introduction to Economy-wide Modelling for Policy Analysis 2 - 6 November 2015 Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) is pleased to announce a workshop on Introduction to Economy-Wide Modelling for Policy Analysis, to be held in Pretoria from 2 – 6 November 2015. For details of the workshop,…
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- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Baba-Tamana Gqubule, Economist: Trade and Industry, TIPS.
The quarterly manufacturing bulletin is an initiative of the Manufacturing Circle. It serves to provide an analysis of trends in the South African manufacturing sector. The focus of this development dialogue will be to present the third quarter manufacturing bulletin with the aim to inform policy and facilitate discussion around…
- Date Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Venue TIPS Boardroom, 227 Lange St, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
- Main Speakers Sithembiso Mtanga, Assistant Programme Manager: Trade and Industry, TIPS
This presentation will explore the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Investment Promotion for South Africa and rest of the world. Recent global trends have indicated a decline in the ratification of new BITs with a number of countries (including South Africa) reviewing and cancelling treaties that have been…
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- investment_promotion_and_the_role_of_bits.pdf (1326 Downloads)
Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub Program, and in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, National Treasury and the Department of Performance Monitoring…